Silver’s Nostalgia Template

Albania

Albania first launched its own satellites to space in 2023

Disappointingly late.

Real 😭

💔

On a lighter note, Albanian American astronaut William Gregory once piloted the Space Shuttle in 1995

Whoag

idaho

Bro wtf happens in Idaho

Kyrgyzstan

A few years ago the country established the Kyrgyz Space Program initiative aimed at furthering STEM availability for women by attempting to build the country's first satellite

Chile

One of the world's first satellite tracking systems was established in Chile in 1959

That's pretty cool.

Afghanistan

Abdul Ahad Momand is famously the only Afghan astronaut, who went to Russian space station Mir in 1988 as part of Russia's crewed international program Interkosmos, which sought to have astronauts from Soviet ally countries interact with Russia's space program

mauritius

The first satellite designed and built in Mauritius, MIR-SAT 1, was deployed directly from the ISS itself on June 22nd, 2021

shit
tuvalu

Tuvalu is most often imaged from space itself due to how remote it is

damn...
uhhhhhhhhhh
south sudan

The European Space Agency's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite is known for its frequent passes over South Sudan

damn
puntland, somalia

come on
answer it

Scotland

Several revolutionary types of engines were first designed in Scotland in the late 1800s and early 1800s as patents for Royal Navy ships

Without those developments, rocket engines themselves would be too far away technologically for people like Robert Goddard to then innovate in

my home county, japan

if this was already answered, Thailand

Thailand is the only currently simultaneously participating in both NASA's moon colony program Artemis and China's moon colony program ILRS

Meaning that they might have astronauts sent to the Moon in the coming years under both programs

VERY KEWL!!!

principality of sealand

In 2020, Sealand sent some of its postcards to space on a Falcon 9 rocket

Wisconsin usa

I actually can't think of a single one 😭

fr*nce

France sent the first cat to space in 1963

lmao forgot to censor the f word

forgot to censor

Canada

Canadian company MDA Space designed the robotic arm Canadarm for the Space Shuttle in the 1980s, and they also designed the similar arm Canadarm2 for the ISS

Cool
This why I love space

Japan

Japan designed the largest module on the ISS at the moment, Kibo

One of their astronauts will also be going to the Moon's surface in 2032 in collaboration with NASA

Noice